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After moving at what Chancellor Carol Folt called “rocket speed,” UNC has launched a new Ethics and Integrity website to help offer guidance to members of the Carolina community. “It’s a tool that will consolidate all of the information that we have on resources, programs and policies that deal with ethics and integrity,” Folt said at the Board of Trustees meeting last Thursday.

After the Count's prank was revealed, the celebration on Twitter, Inside Carolina and HeelTalk was as good as it gets. I couldn't count the notifications I got on Twitter while pages and pages were dedicated to the prank on UNC message boards. I have to admit, I enjoyed reading every bit of it. But much like the Count of Monte Cristo, I still had revenge to deliver.

A recap of how an ordinary Tar Heel pulled off an extraordinary prank on rival fans. The prank was to infiltrate the lion's den of Banner Chasers and convince them the NCAA was going to give UNC a death penalty-like punishment and then have their hearts ripped out with an amended NOA that actually cleared our most beloved sports programs.

On the day of the Tar Heels' "Yard Sale", many former players took to Twitter and voiced their frustration with the sale of jerseys they'd asked the school for, but been refused of. To be clear, most of the Pro Heels (or former Heels) had issue with the fact that much of the sold merchandise ended up on Ebay shortly after (or during) the sale.

The University announced Mark Merritt has been named Vice Chancellor and General Counsel for the University. His position will be effective on September 6. According to a University news release on May 11, Merritt will function as the University’s chief legal officer. Merritt is currently a partner at Robinson Bradshaw, a Charlotte-based law firm.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Thursday released more than 240 pages of exhibits from the NCAA that support that body's allegations of five major rules infractions. Neither head men’s basketball coach Roy Williams nor head football coach Larry Fedora’s names were referenced in the latest exhibits – including interviews.

When Joseph Ferrell stepped to the Kenan Stadium podium for his first commencement as secretary of the faculty in 1996, he realized something was a bit amiss. “I started reading and the students started reading along with me. “As soon as I realized what they were doing I started reading the sentences in a different sequence. They didn’t know what sentence I was going to read next.”

Tom Yeager doesn't know and declines to speculate why the NCAA's amended notice of allegations against North Carolina doesn't mention football and men's basketball. But he doesn't believe the jarring change precludes major sanctions against those programs. "Simply because women's basketball is the only one named, I'm not so sure everyone else is out of the weeds."

When North Carolina received and released its amended notice of allegations from the NCAA on Monday, it wasn’t long before social media outlets were flooded with angry commentary. Through all of the outrage, one particular “explanation” seemed to pop up more often than others. The NCAA cashes in on college basketball, and that’s why it won’t punish a big-name program like North Carolina.

At the Faculty Athletics Committee meeting Tuesday, committee members were quick to point out flaws in possible plans for new athletic facilities. Mike Bunting, associate athletic director of facility planning and management, said Campus Recreation identified a need for up to 30 acres of field space to support their program.

UNC received an amended Notice of Allegations from the NCAA on Monday and with it came a few significant changes from last year's NOA. The most prominent of those changes was the removal of the allegations regarding impermissible benefits regarding the AFAM classes, the removal of men's basketball and football and reducing the time frame to just six years. What does it all mean?

North Carolina is preparing for the next step toward a long-awaited resolution in the multi-year case centered around its academic fraud scandal. The school and individuals named for violations have 90 days to respond now that they finally know what NCAA charges they face. It's the next procedural deadline, though not one set in stone.

The Raleigh newspaper in unprecedented coverage fanned the flames, the national media parroted along, and the masses declared that the appropriate punishments would be that coaches should be fired, banners brought down, scholarships forfeited, post-season bans imposed, heavy fines levied — and, for some, the death penalty for the “worst athletic scandal in the history of the NCAA.”

Chancellor Carol Folt said she and her team didn’t know the exact legal implications of House Bill 2 when it was passed. “Some people think it means one thing legally, other people think it means others and that’s going to be the ground of lawsuits going forward, it’s what does it really mean,” Folt said in an end-of-year interview.